two photographers with two sets of work

Magdalen Road Studios

74 Magdalen Road, OX4 1RE OXFORD UK

12 – 18 April 2024

10am – 6pm

# Open: 12 – 18 April 2024 10am – 6pm
# Opening night: Friday 12 April 6pm – 9pm
# Musical improvisations: Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 April 12 midday – 4pm
Contact: 07941 606869

Paul Medley is intrigued by the camera’s need for the material world to create images. In the two sets of work in this exhibition Paul Medley uses the camera to reveal or construct aspects of the world that are not discernible to the eye. Playing with the idea that while a bird flies a feather falls one set captures the strange and entirely unpredictable trajectory of a falling feather while the second set uses colour, light and random objects to create shifting landscapes too discrete for the eye to see.

If there is something which links Bruno Guastalla’s two sets of photographs, the pigs of Ewelme and the Hoo Peninsula landscapes, it would be the anthropo(s)cenic aspect. It is what draws him to want to put traces down. The confined, powerless, ephemeral pigs are suspended between mud and sky. The boat wrecks are prey to tides and silt.